Too Much Coffee Can Induce Aggression And Paranoia

Independent (UK) ^ | 10-26-2003 | Roger Dobson

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Too much coffee can induce aggression and paranoia

By Roger Dobson
26 October 2003

People who drink too much coffee are at risk of caffeine psychosis, according to a new report. It found that too much caffeine can lead to marked changes in personality and make drinkers more aggressive, anxious and temperamental.

"Caffeinism" puts sufferers at further risk of anxiety neurosis, irregular heart beats, insomnia, muscle twitches, and nervous irritability.

The warning comes a week after Tony Blair suffered an irregular heart beat, which he reportedly blamed on too much strong continental coffee at the European Union summit in Brussels. The supraventricular tachycardia, or SVT, that he suffered can be triggered by caffeine.

In the new report, on the potential effects of caffeine on police hostage negotiators, Professor Wayman Mullins of Southwest Texas State University warns: "Tachycardia could be anxiety-producing and lead to the negotiator's stress level rising to abnormal levels,'' he says in the Journal of Police Crisis Negotiations. "The negotiator would likely become overly anxious, nervous, frightened, and concentrate on what was occurring physiologically and not on the hostage-taker."

Caffeine has also been linked to other health problems: other research has blamed too much coffee with the increased risk of rheumatoid arthritis,miscarriages and epilepsy. Research also shows that drinking four or five cups of coffee a day makes the body behave as if it is under constant stress by increasing the levels of stress hormones. That can raise blood pressure, with a risk of long-term heart disease.

But it is not all bad news for coffee lovers. Researchers have shown that drinking two to four cups a day can lower the risk of colon cancer, gallstones, cirrhosis of the liver and Parkinson's disease. It can also increase male fertility.

[Lazamataz]

Beer also cleans the palate, giving you fresh breath. That is why, after the opposite sex has noticed my good looks, I like to get reeeeeeeeal close to them.... and loudly demonstrate my increased wit and intelligence.

Beer also makes your skin much softer to the touch. That's why after the opposite sex has noticed my good looks, and I have gotten reeeeeeeeal close to them....

.....and loudly demonstrated my increased wit and intelligence.....

... I like to hump against their leg.

[mhking]

Reach for my coffee mug and you'll draw back a nub...

Just damn.

If you want on the new list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

[dasboot]

I gat get

Hands....shaking. Need a Guinness to smoothe out my tremors.

[GalvestonGal.com]

Caffiene also fools your insulin levels. It is my one big cheat on the Atkins diet. I've only gained about two pounds on this diet.

[RiflemanSharpe]

This does explain alot about me and a few of my IT coworkers. Other wise know around the office as the Sttarbucks bunch.

[Elliott Jackalope]

Well, that's one way to let them know you like them. Silly me, thinking that wit and charm was the way to go, all this time I should have been using that technique. So many years wasted...

[The Old Hoosier]

WHADDA YA MEAN!!! EVERYBODY'S OUT TO GET MY COFFEE!!!

[Chad Fairbanks]

It explains a lot about me, too... My cat, a few moments ago, decided that sleeping on my Peavey Amp was a bad idea. I'm thinking that it's because I turned it on and then jammed "Smoke on the water"... I never knew cats could move that fast.

I think I'll go make a pot of coffee now...

[ElkGroveDan]

It can also increase male fertility.

Well that's obvious (said the father of four).

[Lurker]

I gave up caffeine and nicotine in the same week.

I'm just about over wanting to hurt badly nearly everyone who speaks to me.

L

[stands2reason]

Time for coffee!

[FreedomCalls]

"This message has been brought to you by the Tea Exporter's Association of Great Britain."

[Pukin Dog]

I've worn out two coffee makers this year. I just bought another one that grinds the beans automatically. I buy Kona beans over the Internet. Yesterday, I heard my coffee maker on the phone with my broker, trying to buy more stock on Starbucks, when it thought I was sleeping. I know it took my MasterCard, because the other day, I couldnt find it when I went to Peets to buy more chocolate covered coffee beans. I'm thinking about unpluging it from the wall, but it might get mad, and never make coffee for me again. If that happens, I might just go crazy.

[autoresponder]

I knew someone would beat me to the rant

Figured it might be you

Where's my coffee?

registered had a great coffee thread once

[Chad Fairbanks]

ROTFL... Been there... Then I decided, I can't blame my homicidal urges on a lack of coffee and cigs, but rather on bad wiring in my brain.

So, I'm back to smoking cigs and drinking coffee and the body count has dropped dramatically...

[stands2reason]

They also turn into Alan Jackson or Frank Sinatra. Or maybe that happens only at karaoke bars....

[stands2reason]

never, ever, EVER drink the last of my Kona then offer to make me a pot from the pre-measured filter bags you brought home from some hotel two years ago.

Those are words to live by.

KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF MY KONA!!!!

[Ronin]

Uh oh... I must be a timebomb waiting to go off.

[stands2reason]

OMG. Were you on 6th St. in Austin at the Steamboat in summer 1992? That was you, wasn't it?